Sentences with phrase «to form a government»

Parties could still form a government with less than 50 % of first choice votes.

Within 18 months of forming government, we will introduce legislation to enact electoral reform.

Regardless of which party forms the government following the next general election, improving the state of competition needs to be a key priority.

Whoever forms government after this election will be absolutely required to take a leadership role in solving this growing problem.

The forecast raised the prospect that neither major party would be able to form a government without help from another party.

Yet since forming government, they have announced several tax hikes and more may be on the way.

The party winning the majority of seats then forms the government.

For the conservatives the benefits were obvious, having not managed to win a majority they would still form a government and see their leader become prime minister.

The party with more MPs than all the other parties put together forms the government.

No party has ever formed a government behind on both these indicators.

Serious Materials recently formed a government sales group to exploit such opportunities.

A collapse in support of the two pivotal parties of the centre - left and centre - right means that neither look likely to be able to form a government either.

Both the main parties could at least form a government, and will have policies in all areas that have some chance of being implemented.

Check the notice of assessment form the government sent you after processing last year's tax return.

This review is likely to be delayed whichever party forms the government.

I'm hoping to form a government without either of them.

The letter went on further to say it wanted to then form a government.

What I don't understand is how Labour are going to win back the votes of people who voted leave, by campaigning for a second referendum, and if we don't convince them to vote Labour we will not form a government in 2020.

The Union's aim is to serve the best interests of teachers no matter what party forms the Government at national or local level.

Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean announced that if his party forms government on May 5, he would introduce an Accountability Act as the new government's first bill in the Legislative Assembly.

When European monarchs rejected the Pope and formed their state - church, they in turn were rejected by their people, who formed governments of their own, the governments now have suppressed the churches and see no better than historical monuments, now the people without religion or spiritual guidance, will reject their government and there will be breakdown of law and order.

In that case, both Mr Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten will have the chance to form government by doing a deal with independents and minor parties.

Nick Clegg today signalled that he would speak to the Conservatives first about the formation of a minority government if Labour came third by share of the vote on 6 May, rejecting the constitutional convention that the prime minister should be allowed to try to form a government first.

The Wildrose Party, which was a grasp away from forming government in 2012, was decimated by floor crossings in 2014.

More than half a million people have signed a petition against the Conservatives forming a government with the DUP, citing the Irish party's much - criticised stance on gay rights, abortion and the death penalty.

Over 80 % of those voters disappeared under Tony Blair's leadership — that is, by 2005, when Labour formed a government with just 35 % of the vote, the lowest share of any successful party in the history of British democracy.

Then no matter what, they will never form a government in Alberta.

Our annual conferences — and, therefore, us, the grassroots members and activists — continue to make party policy and, a good deal of the time, this is is what forms government policy...

Plaid Cymru and Labour eventually formed the government under the terms of their One Wales agreement.

The SNP surge will actually hurt the Tories» chances of forming a government as they will take some seats from the Lib Dems.

[10] Although Owen was one of the founding members of the party, he was not always enthusiastic about creating a schism on the centre - left, saying to the Glasgow Herald in January 1981 that he felt «haunted by the possibility that, if the Labour Party splits, the Centre Left will never again form the Government in Britain».

Coalitions in parliamentary democracies iron out a legislative agenda when forming a government at the beginning of the session, sometimes in writing, and mostly stick with it.

Mr. Trudeau has promised to meet with provincial Premiers to discuss «economic stimulus» should the Liberals form government after the election.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

It is a bizarre feature of the AV referendum that it was actually proposed by neither of the parties who won the 2010 election, and who now form the government, but emerged as a last gasp from the bunker of the man who lost.

It is this twentieth - century politics that allowed the Conservatives to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats - the ideological obstacles to forming a government only took five days to overcome.

Gus O'Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, recently reflected on the 2010 coalition negotiations, arguing that things «could be even messier» this May, and that «it could take quite a lot longer next time to actually form a government.»

The Conservatives were unable to form a government alone as they had fewer seats despite receiving more votes numerically.

The Liberal Party under Asquith formed a government with the support of the Irish Nationalists.

Nick said: «How could our parties overcome the accusations about two parties which came second and third forming a government, and could we actually form a stable government?»

With the party looking to form a government next May this was the last chance for the usual retinue of lobbyists and influence peddlers to ply their trade to shadow ministers who just might be making actual decisions in a few months» time.